Wire-fence stay-clamp.



No. 763,830. PATENTED JUNE 28, 1904.

P. B. YEIDER.

' WIRE FENCE STAY CLAMP.

APPLIOATIOK FILED D30. 2, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Wilgcsscs 7 1W I J1me Patented June 28, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

PERRY B. YEIDER, OF HELENA, MONTANA.

WIRE-FENCE STAY-CLAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,830, dated June 28, 1904. Application filed December 2, 1903. Serial No. I83A86. (No model.)

To all whom it may concernp."

Be it known that I, PERRY B. YEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Helena,

pairs are employedfland has for its object to simplify and improve the form and construction of the clamp whereby the stay-wires are coupled to the strand-wires to increase the grip between the parts without increasing the expense or detracting from the appearance of the fence.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claim.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a View of a section of a fence with the improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a rear view. Fig. 3 is a front view. Fig, 4- is a sectional View. Fig. 5 is a side View, enlarged, of one of the clamp-plates'and its adjacent portions of the fence structure. Figs. 6 and 7 are perspective views, enlarged, from front and rear of one of the clamp-plates as furnished for attachment to the fence structure.

The fence construction to whichthis improvement is applicable embraces therein spaced horizontal strand or'runner .wires 10 and vertical stay-wires 12, arranged in pairs in what is known as hair-pin shape, as shown.

Any number of the strand-wires may be.

strand-wires, so that when clamped thereon the latter will not move vertically, as hereinafter more fully described.

The clamping, device consists of a rectangular flat plate 14:, having parallel sides and ends and of the full width throughout of the spaced stay-wires 12, as shown.

The clamp-plate is provided centrally with a transverse crimp 15 to fit over the strandwire 10 and with laterally-extending integral lugs 16 at the corners for bending or crimping around the sta -wires, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4. The crimps 13 in the staywires, it will be noted by reference to Fig. 3, come between-the upper and lower lugs and opposite-the strand-wires, so that the staywires, partially encompass the strand-wires, which are thus held between the crimps 15 of the plate and the crimps 13 of the stay-wires. It will be noted that by this construction of the plate 14: with the parallel sides 'and of the full width throughout of the stay-Wires the area in contactwith the strand-wire is materially increased and the bearing-surface in contact with the stay-wires also materially increased, so that alltendency of the parts to become loosened under severe strains is obviated.

The clamp-plates will be struck up into the shape shown in Figs. 5 and 6 and of relatively heavy steel, and when applied and the lugs 16 firmly crimped aroundthe staywires a very strong and durable coupling is completed between the strand and stay wires. Thecouplling is thus accomplished Without puncturing, cutting, or otherwise mutilating or weakening the wires, so that a fence is pro- ;duced of the full strength of the wires composing it.

The clamp-plates may be-of any desired strength or quality of material, but will preferably be of steel galvanized or otherwise protected from the effects of oxidation.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is A clamp for securing hair-pin stay-wires to fence-runners, comprising avplate of a width to cover the spaced-legmembers of the staywires, said plate having a transverse crimp for engagement with the runner wire, and

arms extending laterally from the side edges In testimony that I claim the foregoing as of said plate on opposite sides of said crimp my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in IO and adapted to be clamped around the staythe presence of tWo Witnesses. Wires on opposite sides of the runner-Wire,

said plate being arranged to protect the in- PERRY YEIDER' tersecting point of said stay and runner Wires Witnesses:

and prevent the springing thereof at this point F. T. RUOE,

on the exertion of pressure thereagainst. CHAS. HORNI 

